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The Watergate scandal prompted a new effort for institutional ethics reform in Congress, resulting in, among other things, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. The law established financial interest reporting requirements for high-level government officials, including Supreme Court justices, and the responsibility to make these documents available to the public. It also gave the public new expectations for the ethical behavior of their leaders. From defining values of what was appropriate for an official to accept as a gift to establishing the Office of Government Ethics, the ethics law established clear-cut rules for financial behavior and consequences for violations. A decade later, the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 expanded those requirements.

<blockquote data-quote="pjmret" data-source="post: 352496" data-attributes="member: 5598"><p>The Watergate scandal prompted a new effort for institutional ethics reform in Congress, resulting in, among other things, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/95/statute/STATUTE-92/STATUTE-92-Pg1824.pdf" target="_blank">Ethics in Government Act of 1978</a>. The law established financial interest reporting requirements for high-level government officials, including Supreme Court justices, and the responsibility to make these documents available to the public. It also gave the public new expectations for the ethical behavior of their leaders. From defining values of what was appropriate for an official to accept as a gift to establishing the Office of Government Ethics, the ethics law established clear-cut rules for financial behavior and consequences for violations. A decade later, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/house-bill/3660/text" target="_blank">Ethics Reform Act of 1989</a> expanded those requirements.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="pjmret, post: 352496, member: 5598"] The Watergate scandal prompted a new effort for institutional ethics reform in Congress, resulting in, among other things, the [URL='https://www.congress.gov/95/statute/STATUTE-92/STATUTE-92-Pg1824.pdf']Ethics in Government Act of 1978[/URL]. The law established financial interest reporting requirements for high-level government officials, including Supreme Court justices, and the responsibility to make these documents available to the public. It also gave the public new expectations for the ethical behavior of their leaders. From defining values of what was appropriate for an official to accept as a gift to establishing the Office of Government Ethics, the ethics law established clear-cut rules for financial behavior and consequences for violations. A decade later, the [URL='https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/house-bill/3660/text']Ethics Reform Act of 1989[/URL] expanded those requirements. [/QUOTE]

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